C'mon clock, tick a little faster!

Hey everyone! I thought I would give you guys a bit of an update since it's now been a couple weeks since we have been matched. Our agency has been so crazy busy, in the last couple weeks there have been 20 families matched with pregnant moms. It's so wonderful! But at the same time it means that they are super busy and at times the communication is lacking. We have talked with our birthmom's caseworker a couple times now, and we were supposed to skype with our birthmom yesterday, but unfortunately she had an urgent situation to tend to. So we are hoping to reschedule our skype for sometime next week.

To answer some questions as we have been getting a lot of those. Yes we do know details about the birthmom. For the most part we are keeping a lot of those details private as we want our child to hear about his biological mom from us, not from someone else who may not present the details the way we would want them to be presented. But what we will tell you is that we feel very confident in our match. Although no match is guaranteed until papers are signed after baby is born, we feel at peace with our situation. Our birthmom is not a teenager and this is not her first pregnancy. We feel that these details put us at ease as she knows what to expect and has done this before (not the adoption thing, but the having a baby thing). Our birthmom is also African American, so needless to say we will be adding some chocolate into our family! We are researching how to care for his hair and skin as it is so different than ours! Any tips from people with experience with the AA hair and skin type will be appreciated (thanks in advance)!

We won't be going down to Florida to get him until the papers are signed which will be two days after he is born. Once those papers are signed, she can't change her mind, it's final. We will be in Florida 7-10 days depending how long all the legal stuff takes to be finalized and what not. So now we just wait for a call that we can make travel arrangements to go get our boy. In the meantime we have a countdown on to his due date (33 more days!), and we are working on having another fundraiser. I don't have final details, but we are looking at having another banquet/supper type fundraiser like we did at the beginning of our adoption process. The date will be likely at the beginning of July. We would love for you to come and support us! Besides my house, the estimate for our adoption is the highest bill I have ever received (even without factoring in the CAD to USD exchange rate), so we would love to see you at the fundraiser! If you can't make it and want to give something our PayPal button to the right is still functioning! stay tuned for the details. I will post them when I have them!

I also want to just mention how excited and thankful I am to be sharing this journey with you all. Many people go through the ups and downs of infertility and adoption in silence. I have felt so loved and cared for in this process And I am so thankful that you all have been so loving. When we got matched the agency warned us about sharing our match with everyone just in case it fell through. But we know we would have that many more people loving on us if that were to happen. The amount of free stuff I have gotten in the past week is crazy. People giving us clothes, formula, and other baby items. We are just so blessed to be able to do this journey with all of you! So thank you, we are overwhelmed with your love and generosity. And we truly can't wait for all of you to meet our son!

My hardest task now is to not just sit and watch the clock. 33 more days, and it seems like that is so far away! We just can't wait to meet this little guy. It's been a long journey, and it now has an end date: July 22 (he better not go overdue, I'll be going crazy).